tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141638392016-12-07T03:19:33.035-08:00Far CartoucheThis blog has moved to <a href="http://www.middle-fork.org/roadofpeas/">Road of Peas</a>.the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.comBlogger251125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-57810803295217359492008-05-18T19:34:00.000-07:002008-05-18T19:35:16.260-07:00Far Cartouche has moved into <a href="http://www.middle-fork.org/roadofpeas/">Road of Peas</a> as a category.the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-66727842163830094862007-05-15T11:32:00.000-07:002007-05-15T11:34:23.593-07:00<img alt="dCutIrisb.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/dCutIrisb.gif" width="760" height="573" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Dark Iris</span>the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1172250135902350672007-02-23T09:01:00.000-08:002007-03-04T20:55:32.236-08:00<img alt="dNotaSlugc.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/dNotaSlugc.gif" width="600" height="600" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Starry Night at Slashpile Lake</span>the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1172168409384394732007-02-22T10:19:00.000-08:002007-02-22T10:20:09.400-08:00<img alt="dWL6b.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/dWL6b.gif" width="760" height="464" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Purple Aetherlilies</span>the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1172102127363964622007-02-21T15:54:00.000-08:002007-02-21T15:55:27.376-08:00<img alt="dOneRoleReversalRovegb.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/dOneRoleReversalRovegb.gif" width="500" height="560" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">One Role Reversal Roveg</span>the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1171171206626825342007-02-10T21:19:00.000-08:002007-02-13T23:50:54.196-08:00<img alt="s9OneRoveg.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/s9OneRoveg.gif" width="579" height="620" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">One Roveg</span>the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1170312043918710192007-01-31T22:39:00.000-08:002007-01-31T22:40:43.933-08:00<img alt="s9AtomikAztex.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/s9AtomikAztex.gif" width="760" height="570" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Atomik Aztex</span>the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1170227870110552072007-01-30T23:16:00.000-08:002007-01-30T23:19:31.956-08:00<img alt="s9BirdInFlight.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/s9BirdInFlight.gif" width="760" height="577" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Bird in Flight - Rock on Foam</span>the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1169788492798449752007-01-25T21:14:00.000-08:002007-01-25T21:14:52.813-08:00<img alt="ElephantRockIceCream.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/ElephantRockIceCream.gif" width="760" height="467" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Elephant Rock Ice Cream</span>the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1164340951753362742006-11-23T20:01:00.000-08:002007-01-25T22:26:28.900-08:00<img alt="x1a.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/x1a.gif" width="760" height="504" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Impression of Zion NP</span>the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1163359094275800402006-11-12T11:15:00.000-08:002006-11-12T11:18:14.300-08:00<img alt="DoubleArcb.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/DoubleArcb.gif" width="479" height="620" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Double Arch - Arches National Park</span>the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1160193528078314362006-10-06T20:58:00.000-07:002006-10-06T20:58:48.093-07:00<img alt="pFluensObserves.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/pFluensObserves.gif" width="760" height="465" /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Fluens Observes the Noosphere</span>the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1158894386892314252006-09-21T19:42:00.000-07:002006-09-21T20:06:26.916-07:00<img alt="dBee1and2.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/dBee1and2.gif" width="760" height="385" /><br /><br />The bee dives right in! Just like the herds of content hungry animal fetishists, jonesing for cute imagery, just gotta keep that media monkey entertained.<br /><br />Heroically advancing through the avalanching adversity, the entangling entropy, and the dully thundering details of distraction, <a href="http://www.themodulator.org/">Modulator</a> works to sooth our feverously hungry need for virtual critter hugs. It will be <span style="font-weight:bold;">Friday Ark</span> # 105, solace sweet, and welcome. <br /><br /><br />And what do we have here? This is a great opening line:<br /><br /><blockquote>The caudal appendage is a cat's pride.</blockquote><br /><br /><a href="http://carnival.isfullofcrap.com/">Carnival of the Cats</a> #131 will be at <a href="http://houseofchaos.blog-city.com/">houseofchaos</a>. I'm so there.<br /><br />All are on stage. Where are you?the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1158289180535228822006-09-14T19:51:00.000-07:002006-09-14T20:44:17.326-07:00<img alt="dSabakiTinker.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/dSabakiTinker.gif" width="760" height="296" /><br /><br />Sabaki and Tinker keep watch. They are of two minds about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory">Information Theory</a>. Sabaki thinks that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming">Richard Hamming</a> is God - Tinker insists that the Thundering Patriarch of Info is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_E._Shannon">Claude Elwood Shannon</a>. <br /><br />Find out who is right, this friday, when the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Friday Ark</span> # 104 attains some large fraction of speed of flights of feline fancy (and assorted catfood categories) at that look! up in the sky! it's <a href="http://www.themodulator.org/">Modulator</a> website thingie.<br /><br /><br />Menanwhile, within a light cone of intersecting ice creams cults, <a href="http://carnival.isfullofcrap.com/">Carnival of the Cats</a> #130 will be with zero and infinite entropy definitely located at high velocity sitting quietly within the future president and his thoughts, i.e. at <a href="http://fatelvis04.blogspot.com/">Justin's Random Thoughts</a>. <br /> <br /><br />Just saying.the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1157684752242236772006-09-07T19:15:00.000-07:002006-09-07T20:05:52.336-07:00<img alt="dForestSpider3.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/dForestSpider3.gif" width="720" height="574" /><br /><br />It's the dog days for the kitties - they've just been lying around like piles of mud, poised uninterestingly, and not even snoring. Sabaki suggested outsourcing and the Forest Spider volunteered to host this Bedlamite Disbursement of Explanatory Factoids, undermining the Will of the Paper, and in Support of Stochastic Capitalization. <br /><br />(I've been reading <span style="font-style:italic;">Mason & Dixon</span> by Thomas Pynchon, a wildly entertaining romp delving into the Cleaving of the Subjunctive by the Precision Apparati of Astronomy. And seemingly Random Capitalization. I recommend the Book Highly.)<br /><br />Stepping back into less selfconsciousness, like something more comfortable help yourself to a drink, there's inevitably the sheer exploratory delight to be found in the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Friday Ark</span>, this one styled 103, held most regularly in that user friendly space <a href="http://www.themodulator.org/">Modulator</a>.<br /><br /><br />Meanwhile, this week, in the I-never-met-a-U-joint-I-didn-'t-like never-never-land of the <a href="http://carnival.isfullofcrap.com/">Carnival of the Cats</a>, we find (by groping around in the dark little box) why it's #129, perched skillfully within the future of <a href="http://wonkitties.blogspot.com/">Begin Each Day As If It Were on Purpose</a>. <br /><br />Hmm, I'm with Poe on this one: <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion.</span>the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1156479973634835312006-08-24T20:42:00.000-07:002006-08-24T21:28:18.100-07:00<img alt="dSabaki3b.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/dSabaki3b.gif" width="734" height="592" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sabaki</span> is determined to involve herself in dire muscidaemantic rituals. Kitties betray so well both sides of that last coin. But flies? Yuck. Well, better she than me. Let's just buzz along, down Hwy 101, which is known as the Oregon Coast Highway here in the state where things look different. Who came up with that, anyway? Maybe it refers to the <a href="http://www.50states.com/flag/orflag.htm">Oregon State Flag</a>, which has a different image on each side. The kitties are of two minds about this. <br /><br />Back to Highway 101, which will be disguised as <span style="font-weight:bold;">Friday Ark 101</span>, and arrive nearly Friday one way or the other, thoroughly ensconced little, big-like right inside the infinitely fractal tubes that lead to <a href="http://www.themodulator.org/">Modulator</a>'s ongoing experience in animal husbandry. Check it out.<br /><br /><br />Meanwhile, this week, the metauniversally famous <a href="http://carnival.isfullofcrap.com/">Carnival of the Cats</a> #127 will be hosted at a safehouse sounding kind of place, <a href="http://catymology.blogspot.com/">Catymology</a>. <br /><br />Hmm, well, interesting list of books never finished and why. Earlier today I thought about <span style="font-style:italic;">Hopeful Monsters</span> by Nicholas Mosley, which became a sludge of pretentious dreck after a few dozen pages. Sullied up my precious mental knickers.<br /><br />Finishing books is over rated. Actually, the boundaries between books are overrated. How could you finish a delicious <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazpacho">gazpacho</a> like Campbell's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose-Einstein_condensate">Bose-Einstein Condensed</a> Soup of Books? You can't eat just one.the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1156345520827584532006-08-23T08:04:00.000-07:002006-08-23T08:05:20.850-07:00<img alt="d9MQC.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/d9MQC.gif" width="760" height="553" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Nine Mile Quarry Creek 0</span>the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1156217940592913732006-08-21T20:36:00.000-07:002006-08-21T20:40:47.316-07:00<img alt="dMissSaprocyte.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/dMissSaprocyte.gif" width="760" height="518" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Saprophyta, Goddess of Soft Focus, Smirks at my Benighted Attempts at a Sharper Vision</span>the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1156019022910379922006-08-19T13:23:00.000-07:002006-08-19T13:23:42.926-07:00<img alt="fca1.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/fca1.gif" width="760" height="541" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Night Sweats</span>the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1155870448314610362006-08-17T19:08:00.000-07:002006-08-17T20:07:28.446-07:00<img alt="dTwoStoryKitties2.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/dTwoStoryKitties2.gif" width="330" height="520" /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Lady and Houdini both insist they weren't really playing</span>, and really, there is only one kitty here anyway. They are very good at being innocent.<br /><br />There's no need to feel innocent about <a href="http://www.themodulator.org/">Modulator</a>'s stunning achievement with reaching the big one, it's gonna be the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Friday Ark 100</span>! Yowsers! This is truly something. Mark your calenders and rent the tux two weeks in advance just to be sure. You can never be sure.<br /><br />One thing for which there is a wellspring of desire for the comfort of surety, that is the expectation that the <span style="font-weight:bold;">126th <a href="http://carnival.isfullofcrap.com/">Carnival of the Cats</a></span> will be hosted at <a href="http://redpeonies.blogspot.com/">Red Peonies</a>. There are eight contributors listed and the last post was over two weeks ago. The kitties are nervous. <br /><br />...<br /><br />Ok, I lost the segue logic, it was there for a few minutes. This comes next:<br /><br />Is this like an <a href="http://www.oakland.edu/enp/">Erdos Number</a>? Did Erdos ever Friday Cat Blog? <br /><br />There is also defined the Erdos Go Number, for the esteemed gentleman played that most excellent of games, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(board_game)">Go.</a> (That's interesting, that's the first time I've ever seen parens in an URL.)<br /><br />I have an Erdos Go Number of 2, as I have played go with someone who has played go with Paul Erdos. I dish out threes for free - just ask.the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1155787918390559462006-08-16T21:08:00.000-07:002006-08-16T21:11:58.416-07:00<img alt="dBlueRock.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/dBlueRock.gif" width="760" height="567" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">AAA Card vs. the Ghostly Blue Titan Heaving Rocks</span>the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1155615868375249982006-08-14T21:23:00.000-07:002006-08-14T21:24:28.393-07:00<img alt="dSCWater5.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/dSCWater5.gif" width="760" height="507" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Staley Creek Water 5</span>the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1155490773585044242006-08-13T10:36:00.000-07:002006-08-13T10:39:33.643-07:00<img alt="dSCWater2.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/dSCWater2.gif" width="760" height="407" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Staley Creek Water 2</span>the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1155307213292167992006-08-11T07:39:00.000-07:002006-08-11T07:40:13.316-07:00<img alt="dSCWater.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/dSCWater.gif" width="760" height="501" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Staley Creek Water</span>the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163839.post-1155268643671152642006-08-10T20:15:00.000-07:002006-08-10T20:57:23.776-07:00<img alt="dFlowersStraw.gif" src="http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/dFlowersStraw.gif" width="760" height="381" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Lady and Houdini Out Rolling Around</span>. Everyone has to roll in something, I guess. I think I'm with Lady on this one.<br /><br />This week, she's getting spiffed up and hitting the books, in preparation for that durable stratum of the extensive league of webagnomes shaking the firmament with a down home beat. That would be <span style="font-weight:bold;">Friday Ark 99</span> rhythmically expounded at <a href="http://www.themodulator.org/">Modulator</a><br /><br /><br />The gravity of the situation grumbles from within. Kitties know that humans will feed them randomly in response to obsessive attention. Unfortunately, our dear friend in the Austra regions seems to be off her diet. I hope all is well. All the kitties send prays and best wishes to <a href="http://eatstuff.net/">eatstuff</a>, where many weekends one finds a marvelous Weekend Cat Blogging event. And food. The kitties like the food.<br /><br /><br />This week, <a href="http://elisson1.blogspot.com/">Blog d'Ellison</a> hosts the 125th <a href="http://carnival.isfullofcrap.com/">Carnival of the Cats</a>. The host is a veteran, with many fine cat herding adventures under his belt, so to speak, so hang in there, and it'll all be just purring along. Come Sunday Sunday Sunday.the Robot Vegetablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15898299171712864763noreply@blogger.com0